Leeds University, Friday 26 February 2016
RUPERT BECKETT LECTURE THEATRE
4:00-4.10PM Zena Edwards. Poetry performance.
4:10-5.10PM. Corinne Silva, Wandering Abroad and Garden State. The London artist will here present her ac-claimed 2009 Wandering Abroad, a film following in the footsteps of Oluwale’s life, as well as her more recent project on the politics of gardening in the suburbs and conflict zones.
5:10-5.20PM Morgan Murphy Malik and Pariss Elektra. Music performance
5:30-6:30pm. Caryl Phillips, Oluwale Then and Now. Chaired by Max Farrar of the David Oluwale Memorial Association, Caryl Phillips will here speak about his work on David Oluwale’s life, Foreigners (2007).
6.30-7.30pm. Gary Younge, Black Lives Matter and Transatlantic Policing in 2016. Chaired by John McLeod, Gary Younge will here speak about his experiences in the United States covering the Black Lives Matter movement as well as the acts of police aggression that led to it.
OLUWALE NOW
